Photos: Chicago welcomes Apollo 11 crew in 1969

Chicago Tribune archive photo

Sign hangers (left) Nick Padula and James Stewart, both city workers, put up "Welcome Apollo 11" signs along Michigan Avenue. The signs were posted along the parade route for Apollo 11 astronauts and their families.

August 13, 1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. are cheered along a packed parade route as Chicagoans celebrate their historic moon landing. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on Earth's moon on July 20, 1969.